The headlines have been non-stop and are only going to accelerate. The H1N1 flu — or swine flu — strain is now a global epidemic, and tomorrow’s seminar at LITE aims to get local companies ready for what could be a very rough ride this fall. LGMC has teamed up with LEDA and LITE to host the H1N1 education event from 7:30-9 a.m. tomorrow. The event is free and open to the public.
Seven people have died in Louisiana from the swine flu strain so far; read more about the potential impact of the deadly virus on Acadiana business community in September’s Health & Medical Monthly in The Independent Weekly. For more information on tomorrow's seminar, visit lafayettegeneral.com or call 289-8600.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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